'Tis a wonder how faggots have risen.
"The finance-scheme of Canning contains
A new Easter-offering tax:
And he means to devote all the gains
To a bounty on thumb-screws and racks.
Your living, so neat and compact—
Pray, don't let the news give you pain?
Is promised, I know for a fact,
To an olive-faced padre from Spain."
I read, and I felt my heart bleed,